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Mittwoch's* mental meanderings

Yes, seems Paul found this story** about this new Internet driven craze to gather all these mindless mobs for inane purposes:

On a recent Thursday in New York's Central Park, about 200 people gathered across from the Museum of Natural History and started chirping, tweeting, crowing and muttering "bird call, bird call."

After a few minutes of organized cacophony, the group of strangers dispersed, having successfully brought off a "flash mob," summer's wackiest craze.

Also called "flocking" and "inexplicable mobbing," it's sweeping the globe as groups summoned by e-mail or cell phone perform Monty Pythonesque pranks lasting 10 minutes or less, then scatter to the winds.

At first I thought, what kind of stupid crap is this? Even on a good day a good inaniac™ such as myself would not have dreamed*** of such. But then I thought about all those gals that would likely be in that mob. They can't have much of any kind of life to be getting involved in something like that, could they? It would be better than hanging around the grocery store asking every gal which TV dinner I ought to buy. So, where is the next one? Send me the details. Be there or be square.

*Mittwoch is my favorite German word, mainly because it is one of the few I can actually recall. It literally means middle of the week, which to me is a much better name for the day than Wednesday.

**Paul claims a reader slipped him the link. He is still afraid to come out of the closet and admits he goes FARKing.

***I am not an organizer of stupidity anyway, I am just the ignorant guy that dreams up most of it.

Posted by Tiger at August 13, 2003 04:51 PM | TrackBack